Door Scene II

Last week, we were supposed to complete the second part of the Door Scene video. Our group had to come up with a storyboard for the scene, obeying to same requirements of the previous week's project. Honestly, I couldn't come up with a new story, so I ended up making the storyboard for the same story from last week ( what a shame!). I mean, I had some ideas, but they were, hum, not genial, let's put it like that! But I tried to make a decent storyboard using the neuannotate app. I liked that app, by the way, however, it does not have resources to make a good drawing, and the typing box is a little problematic. But it nice to have an app that allows you to open and make annotation on PDF files.

But I digress. After selecting the best storyline from each group, we had to switch storylines with another group, therefore, we all would record somebody else's creation. I liked the twist, because we had the opportunity to evaluate how efficient and clear our storyboards were, based on the final videos. It is easier when you are recording your own, because you can explain what is obscure, and add details that were absent in the storyboard. But when you don't have the opportunity to elaborate using your voice, then you have exactly what you created. And it can be confusing or too general.
This time, my group was much faster, and wrapped it up well before the time allocated for the activity, which didn't happen last week. Perhaps that is because once you have a storyline, a clear one, you just do what you are supposed to, and do not have to think about changes, or it could be that the fact that we recorded a video last week served as a kind of "practice". Or maybe we were just tired. Anyways, it was a much faster and straight forward process.
In sum, I found it an interesting activity, not only it made us use the iPad to shoot a video, but it also gave us an opportunity to elaborate, collaborate, and evaluate the quality of the storyboards we produced.

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